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For the record, I'm 28 years old and live in Seattle, Washington. I was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, then I earned my degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1993, and in the spring of 1994 I moved to Seattle to join a game company called Wizards of the Coast. They do a trading card game called Magic: The Gathering among other things, and I spent most of my fourteen months at WotC working on Magic-related projects as a writer and developer. In July of 1995 I resigned to join another Seattle game company, Daedalus Entertainment. Daedalus had recently released a trading card game (the incredibly excellent game Shadowfist), and hired me to be their marketing director and also to run their three roleplaying game lines (primarily the incredibly excellent Feng Shui). I worked for Daedalus for a year, at which point most of the staff was laid off--including me. Realizing that this was a blessing in disguise, I moved on. I'm now working as a full-time freelance writer, editor, graphic designer, and WWW creator, under the aegis of Commando Creative Services. Past and present clients include Nightshade Books, WRQ Inc., MovieMaker magazine, Acclaim Entertainment, a local screenwriter/producer for whom I've done consulting work, Mad Az Tech Press/Red Herring Press' Big Bad Baseball Annual, Atlas Games (publishers of my and Greg Stolze's roleplaying game Unknown Armies), Steve Jackson Games (for their In Nomine roleplaying game), and Hogshead Limited (publisher of my Puppetland/Power Kill roleplaying games). Being a freelancer is all well and good, but what I really want to do is run my own publishing company. Good thing I do! I'm the chairman of the board of Tynes Cowan Corporation, a privately-held company also based in Seattle. TCCorp. is better known in the roleplaying games hobby as Pagan Publishing, a game publishing outfit I started in 1990. Pagan Publishing produces a magazine and books for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, a game published by Chaosium, Inc. that is inspired by the works of author Howard Philips Lovecraft. In turn, Pagan is better known as the publisher of The Unspeakable Oath, a magazine that supports the Call of Cthulhu game and is also somewhat of interest to H.P. Lovecraft fans who aren't into gaming. Pagan has a staff of five, including myself. Four of us live and work together in a large, somewhat dingy house down the hill from the University of Washington. Besides myself there is Adam Scott Glancy (business manager and associate editor), John Crowe (associate editor), Brian Appleton (playtest coordinator), and Dennis Detwiller (art director). Our cats Monkey, Trouble, and Thompson live here, too. In addition to Pagan Publishing, we also operate a Cthulhu Mythos/H.P. Lovecraft mail-order catalog known as The Outsider. Besides that, we've set up an imprint called Armitage House to publish fiction and non-fiction for mainstream bookstores and our catalog. When I'm not up till far too late working on web pages (like I am right now, typing this) I go to lots of movies or hang out with friends. I'm easy to find. Just go to 5536 25th Ave. NE in Seattle, walk around to the back of the house, and peek in one of the basement windows; if it's before noon, you'll probably see me asleep. After noon and until 2am or so, you'll find me sitting in front of the computer working on stuff like this web page and avoiding more important tasks. My interests, such as they are, include films and film-making, writing, graphic design, visceral fiction, and altered spaces. [LINK] There's this swell guy named Ken Hite who writes a weekly gaming column for an online magazine called Mania. Last fall he interviewed me on a variety of topics. If you want to check out the results, they ran it in two parts: [one] [two]. [LINK] Another interview with yours truly, this time by Greg McNutt for the Gaming Outpost web site. [LINK] I wrote a short piece for the exceptionally nifty web site McSweeney's; it's a parody of the also exceptionally nifty magazine Brill's Content.
[LINK] I wrote a novel--and it doesn't suck! Check out Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement at the Armitage House sneak preview page . . . or read this review at rpg.net.
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